Hungarian Overprints Help

Can anyone tell me about this overprint on a Hungarian Reaper.



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Transitional stamp. The base stamp was issued during Empire in late summer/early fall 1918; the overprint (added around the time Hungary declared itself a republic on 16 November 1918) translates as "Republic." Replaced within a few months by a stamp of identical design, except instead of "Magyar Kir. Posta," it read "Magyar Posta."

Thank you!

Ah, but what about the red surcharge?

Well, unless your question is a leading one, the red surcharge appears to have repriced the stamp from 4 filler to 1 korona. I don't know how or why some issues got a surcharge at the time, and others not.

Romanian occupation of Temesvar,1919
Michel # 7

Hungarian overprints and varieties could form a collection unto itself. To me , all of these issues including German, Austrian, Romanian etc occupation stamps show the absolute chaos caused by WWI.

If one reads the Emperor of All Maladies describing the Weimer republic in the 1870's or so at a time when Britain was in need of indigo as a source for dyes for its linen industry and Germany watching the world getting carved up by (GB, France, Spain, Holland, Portugal, and Belgium) and then think about your stamp collection where during the same period, Germany did not have a single colony to feed it, how revving up their physical chemistry expertise to supply the dyes that over time led to mustard/mustard gas and an aggressive posture led to German colonization, not by navigation and exploration, but by war and occupation.

Post WWI back to the status quo until WWII where the cycle repeats itself.

Here is the stamp with Temesvar postmark (CTO)

Sure enough BoB under Hungary in Scott #4N2.